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Men's basketball:
In the fifth-place game of the U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam in St. Thomas, Northern Iowa held off Old Dominion 54-53.
Ahmad Caver scored a team-high 24 points for ODU (2-3), which went on a 7-0 run to tie the game at 50...

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Softball:
Hampton University won a pair of games Thursday to stay alive in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament in Ormond Beach, Fla.
First, the Pirates outlasted Coppin State 4-3 in 13 innings — HU’s longest game in the last 25...

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Men’s basketball:
Christopher Newport, ranked 14th in the d3hoops.com national preseason poll, led by double digits early in the second half but lost 61-58 in an exhibition Thursday night before 2,036 fans at Division I Maryland Eastern...

Obituary:The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association is mourning the loss of Bob Moorman, its first full-time commissioner (from 1976-89), who died Sunday in Hampton. He served on many NCAA councils during his stint in the CIAA.Moorman was a...

Obituary:The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association is mourning the loss of Bob Moorman, its first full-time commissioner (from 1976-89), who died Sunday in Hampton. He served on many NCAA councils during his stint in the CIAA.Moorman was a...

Old Dominion University, Virginia Beach and several partners are proposing to develop a $50 million algae farm on city-owned land where the aquatic growth would be converted into biodiesel fuel and other forms of alternative energy.Much of the proposal,...

As Ego Ferguson recently sifted through some old videos of his son J.R.'s early football playing days, he came across a tape that portrayed a timid young man.In the background of the videotape, which was shot just three years ago, Ego could hear himself...

IN UNIFORM* Civilian Travis Taylor enlisted in the Navy under the delayed entry program at Navy Recruiting DIstrict Richmond. Taylor is the son of Andrea C. and Rex Taylor of Newport News and is a 2004 graduate of Woodside High School.* Todd W. Blanchette...

Mother Nature spawns thunder and lightning, torrential rains, tornadoes and hurricanes.Now she just might have spawned a new Black College Football Classic, this one a possible one-time deal.Let's just call it the Back Yard Classic, sure to be a hotly...

Leslie Souliere, athletic director at James Blair Middle School in Williamsburg, wants students to gain confidence in themselves.As she describes it, "To know, physically and mentally, that if they take a risk and try, they can accomplish something if...

HAMPTON -- Hampton University lost the best women's basketball player in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference to graduation. then one of its best players withdrew from school.Nevertheless, the lady pirates are favored to defend their meac crown.have league...

Jim Waymire of Virginia and Judy Waymire of Atlanta wish to announce the engagement of their daughter, Marcy Marie Waymire, to Douglas White, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon White of Atlanta.Marcy is the granddaughter of Charles and Rose Overmeyer, and Robert...

Health and Human Services* Arthur W. "Buzz" Schmidt Jr. was named the 1999 NonProfit Executive of the Year by the NonProfit Times. Schmidt is founder and president of Philanthropic Research Inc., and creator of the GuideStar Web site, a site for donors to...

The Christopher Newport University soccer team must forfeit a victory for using an ineligible player earlier this season.Senior Larry Reaves, ineligible because of a low grade-point average at a previous college, played in four games this season, but...

The first Warrior Classic Festival of Bands will be held at 4 p.m. Nov. 2 in Darling Statium, Victoria Boulevard, Hampton. Competing bands from the following high schools will include Cox, Poquoson, Tabb, Denbigh, Smithfield, Bethel, Warwick,...

PEOPLE* Christopher Edward Scull, son of Carolyn Schwartz of Hampton and Thomas Scull of Newport News, and grandson of Edward and Eleanor Peck, is attending Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Ala. Scull, a former drum major and 1991 Kecoughtan...

PEOPLE* Christopher Edward Scull, son of Carolyn Schwartz of Hampton and Thomas Scull of Newport News, and grandson of Edward and Eleanor Peck, is attending Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Ala. Scull, a former drum major and 1991 Kecoughtan...